Whether refund application timeline can be counted from date of submission before the wrong jurisdictional office ?
TRT-2026-1205

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes

Held - If the refund of duty paid was filed by an assessee in the wrong jurisdiction before an authority who not competent to entertain the refund claim, that too within the time limit, the said authority must transfer the application for refund claim to the competent authority, as has been correctly done in this case. As rightly held in the impugned order, the period during which the claim remained with the wrong jurisdictional authority shou.....